PRODUCTION POTENTIAL AND STORAGE SPACE IN FARMS ORGANIZED IN THE FRUIT PRODUCERS' GROUP *

Summary. The paper presents analysis of production potential of farms organized in the fruit producers' group. Moreover, the analysis of the storage space was assumed as the purpose of the paper. The scope of work covered a group uniting 6 farms of average area of 8 ha of AL intended in 100% for planting fruit trees (apple trees in 90% and pear trees in 10%). A producers' group have the storage space in total of 2183 m 3 . A unit index of the storage area use was at the average 0.71 t·m -2 . The plan of cooperative developing, which is carried out by the